“Say whatever about Clay/Ali, love him or hate him, but there is no way ever that I would believe that his IQ was 78.”
Apparently, the 78 IQ score was from when he was given an IQ test by the US Army.
I think he botched the test on purpose.
That, it itself, was stupid.
Deliberately flunking an IQ test to dodge the service is beyond belief.
Speaking of the Army -
I have never heard of Elvis Presley changing his name and/or religion to avoid the service. Have never really been a fan of Elvis’s music the man stood up to be counted and put on the uniform...Cassius Clay did not/would not.
Elvis interrupted his skyrocketing career without complaint to serve our country. Cassius Clay would have had to stand on his mother’s shoulders to kiss Elvis Presley’s ass.
“Apparently, the 78 IQ score was from when he was given an IQ test by the US Army.
I think he botched the test on purpose.”
Were that the case, the Marines would have taken him :)
I’m going to go sell my house now and find a hole in Antarctica to live in after that joke :)
Would a low score keep him out in those days?